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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index 4b9b9b286cea..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,409 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> - -<book id="scsimid"> - <bookinfo> - <title>SCSI Interfaces Guide</title> - - <authorgroup> - <author> - <firstname>James</firstname> - <surname>Bottomley</surname> - <affiliation> - <address> - <email>James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com</email> - </address> - </affiliation> - </author> - - <author> - <firstname>Rob</firstname> - <surname>Landley</surname> - <affiliation> - <address> - <email>rob@landley.net</email> - </address> - </affiliation> - </author> - - </authorgroup> - - <copyright> - <year>2007</year> - <holder>Linux Foundation</holder> - </copyright> - - <legalnotice> - <para> - This documentation is free software; you can redistribute - it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public - License version 2. - </para> - - <para> - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be - useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied - warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. - For more details see the file COPYING in the source - distribution of Linux. - </para> - </legalnotice> - </bookinfo> - - <toc></toc> - - <chapter id="intro"> - <title>Introduction</title> - <sect1 id="protocol_vs_bus"> - <title>Protocol vs bus</title> - <para> - Once upon a time, the Small Computer Systems Interface defined both - a parallel I/O bus and a data protocol to connect a wide variety of - peripherals (disk drives, tape drives, modems, printers, scanners, - optical drives, test equipment, and medical devices) to a host - computer. - </para> - <para> - Although the old parallel (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI bus has largely - fallen out of use, the SCSI command set is more widely used than ever - to communicate with devices over a number of different busses. - </para> - <para> - The <ulink url='http://www.t10.org/scsi-3.htm'>SCSI protocol</ulink> - is a big-endian peer-to-peer packet based protocol. SCSI commands - are 6, 10, 12, or 16 bytes long, often followed by an associated data - payload. - </para> - <para> - SCSI commands can be transported over just about any kind of bus, and - are the default protocol for storage devices attached to USB, SATA, - SAS, Fibre Channel, FireWire, and ATAPI devices. SCSI packets are - also commonly exchanged over Infiniband, - <ulink url='http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/faq.php'>I20</ulink>, TCP/IP - (<ulink url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI'>iSCSI</ulink>), even - <ulink url='http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/parscsi.html'>Parallel - ports</ulink>. - </para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="subsystem_design"> - <title>Design of the Linux SCSI subsystem</title> - <para> - The SCSI subsystem uses a three layer design, with upper, mid, and low - layers. Every operation involving the SCSI subsystem (such as reading - a sector from a disk) uses one driver at each of the 3 levels: one - upper layer driver, one lower layer driver, and the SCSI midlayer. - </para> - <para> - The SCSI upper layer provides the interface between userspace and the - kernel, in the form of block and char device nodes for I/O and - ioctl(). The SCSI lower layer contains drivers for specific hardware - devices. - </para> - <para> - In between is the SCSI mid-layer, analogous to a network routing - layer such as the IPv4 stack. The SCSI mid-layer routes a packet - based data protocol between the upper layer's /dev nodes and the - corresponding devices in the lower layer. It manages command queues, - provides error handling and power management functions, and responds - to ioctl() requests. - </para> - </sect1> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="upper_layer"> - <title>SCSI upper layer</title> - <para> - The upper layer supports the user-kernel interface by providing - device nodes. - </para> - <sect1 id="sd"> - <title>sd (SCSI Disk)</title> - <para>sd (sd_mod.o)</para> -<!-- !Idrivers/scsi/sd.c --> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="sr"> - <title>sr (SCSI CD-ROM)</title> - <para>sr (sr_mod.o)</para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="st"> - <title>st (SCSI Tape)</title> - <para>st (st.o)</para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="sg"> - <title>sg (SCSI Generic)</title> - <para>sg (sg.o)</para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="ch"> - <title>ch (SCSI Media Changer)</title> - <para>ch (ch.c)</para> - </sect1> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="mid_layer"> - <title>SCSI mid layer</title> - - <sect1 id="midlayer_implementation"> - <title>SCSI midlayer implementation</title> - <sect2 id="scsi_device.h"> - <title>include/scsi/scsi_device.h</title> - <para> - </para> -!Iinclude/scsi/scsi_device.h - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="scsi.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi.c</title> - <para>Main file for the SCSI midlayer.</para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsicam.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsicam.c</title> - <para> - <ulink url='http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/cam/cam-r12b.pdf'>SCSI - Common Access Method</ulink> support functions, for use with - HDIO_GETGEO, etc. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsicam.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_error.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c</title> - <para>Common SCSI error/timeout handling routines.</para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_error.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_devinfo.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c</title> - <para> - Manage scsi_dev_info_list, which tracks blacklisted and whitelisted - devices. - </para> -!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_ioctl.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c</title> - <para> - Handle ioctl() calls for SCSI devices. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_lib.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c</title> - <para> - SCSI queuing library. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_lib_dma.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_lib_dma.c</title> - <para> - SCSI library functions depending on DMA - (map and unmap scatter-gather lists). - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_lib_dma.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_module.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c</title> - <para> - The file drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c contains legacy support for - old-style host templates. It should never be used by any new driver. - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_proc.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c</title> - <para> - The functions in this file provide an interface between - the PROC file system and the SCSI device drivers - It is mainly used for debugging, statistics and to pass - information directly to the lowlevel driver. - - I.E. plumbing to manage /proc/scsi/* - </para> -!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_netlink.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c</title> - <para> - Infrastructure to provide async events from transports to userspace - via netlink, using a single NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT protocol for all - transports. - - See <ulink url='http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=115507374832500&w=2'>the - original patch submission</ulink> for more details. - </para> -!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_scan.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c</title> - <para> - Scan a host to determine which (if any) devices are attached. - - The general scanning/probing algorithm is as follows, exceptions are - made to it depending on device specific flags, compilation options, - and global variable (boot or module load time) settings. - - A specific LUN is scanned via an INQUIRY command; if the LUN has a - device attached, a scsi_device is allocated and setup for it. - - For every id of every channel on the given host, start by scanning - LUN 0. Skip hosts that don't respond at all to a scan of LUN 0. - Otherwise, if LUN 0 has a device attached, allocate and setup a - scsi_device for it. If target is SCSI-3 or up, issue a REPORT LUN, - and scan all of the LUNs returned by the REPORT LUN; else, - sequentially scan LUNs up until some maximum is reached, or a LUN is - seen that cannot have a device attached to it. - </para> -!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_sysctl.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_sysctl.c</title> - <para> - Set up the sysctl entry: "/dev/scsi/logging_level" - (DEV_SCSI_LOGGING_LEVEL) which sets/returns scsi_logging_level. - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="scsi_sysfs.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c</title> - <para> - SCSI sysfs interface routines. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="hosts.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/hosts.c</title> - <para> - mid to lowlevel SCSI driver interface - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/hosts.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="constants.c"> - <title>drivers/scsi/constants.c</title> - <para> - mid to lowlevel SCSI driver interface - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/constants.c - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="Transport_classes"> - <title>Transport classes</title> - <para> - Transport classes are service libraries for drivers in the SCSI - lower layer, which expose transport attributes in sysfs. - </para> - <sect2 id="Fibre_Channel_transport"> - <title>Fibre Channel transport</title> - <para> - The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c defines transport attributes - for Fibre Channel. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="iSCSI_transport"> - <title>iSCSI transport class</title> - <para> - The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c defines transport - attributes for the iSCSI class, which sends SCSI packets over TCP/IP - connections. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="SAS_transport"> - <title>Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) transport class</title> - <para> - The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c defines transport - attributes for Serial Attached SCSI, a variant of SATA aimed at - large high-end systems. - </para> - <para> - The SAS transport class contains common code to deal with SAS HBAs, - an aproximated representation of SAS topologies in the driver model, - and various sysfs attributes to expose these topologies and management - interfaces to userspace. - </para> - <para> - In addition to the basic SCSI core objects this transport class - introduces two additional intermediate objects: The SAS PHY - as represented by struct sas_phy defines an "outgoing" PHY on - a SAS HBA or Expander, and the SAS remote PHY represented by - struct sas_rphy defines an "incoming" PHY on a SAS Expander or - end device. Note that this is purely a software concept, the - underlying hardware for a PHY and a remote PHY is the exactly - the same. - </para> - <para> - There is no concept of a SAS port in this code, users can see - what PHYs form a wide port based on the port_identifier attribute, - which is the same for all PHYs in a port. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="SATA_transport"> - <title>SATA transport class</title> - <para> - The SATA transport is handled by libata, which has its own book of - documentation in this directory. - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="SPI_transport"> - <title>Parallel SCSI (SPI) transport class</title> - <para> - The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c defines transport - attributes for traditional (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI busses. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c - </sect2> - <sect2 id="SRP_transport"> - <title>SCSI RDMA (SRP) transport class</title> - <para> - The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c defines transport - attributes for SCSI over Remote Direct Memory Access. - </para> -!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c - </sect2> - </sect1> - - </chapter> - - <chapter id="lower_layer"> - <title>SCSI lower layer</title> - <sect1 id="hba_drivers"> - <title>Host Bus Adapter transport types</title> - <para> - Many modern device controllers use the SCSI command set as a protocol to - communicate with their devices through many different types of physical - connections. - </para> - <para> - In SCSI language a bus capable of carrying SCSI commands is - called a "transport", and a controller connecting to such a bus is - called a "host bus adapter" (HBA). - </para> - <sect2 id="scsi_debug.c"> - <title>Debug transport</title> - <para> - The file drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c simulates a host adapter with a - variable number of disks (or disk like devices) attached, sharing a - common amount of RAM. Does a lot of checking to make sure that we are - not getting blocks mixed up, and panics the kernel if anything out of - the ordinary is seen. - </para> - <para> - To be more realistic, the simulated devices have the transport - attributes of SAS disks. - </para> - <para> - For documentation see - <ulink url='http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdebug26.html'>http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdebug26.html</ulink> - </para> -<!-- !Edrivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c --> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="todo"> - <title>todo</title> - <para>Parallel (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI, USB, SATA, - SAS, Fibre Channel, FireWire, ATAPI devices, Infiniband, - I20, iSCSI, Parallel ports, netlink... - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - </chapter> -</book> |